Sebastian Gräf is a Principal DevOps & Cloud Consultant with over a decade of experience helping enterprises adopt cloud-native practices, automation and AI-driven solutions while working at Microsoft and running his own consultancy, graef.io. He blends hands-on expertise in Azure infrastructure-as-code—contributing modules and CI/CD workflows to the well-used Azure/ResourceModules repository—with a strategic knack for scaling teams and processes across global organizations. Sebastian pairs technical depth in IaC, security and automation with leadership training from Harvard Business School Online and a background in business information technology, enabling him to translate complex technical requirements into practical, auditable outcomes. Unconventionally, he also trains as an international yoga teacher, reflecting a focus on resilience and human-centered leadership that informs his coaching and community-building efforts.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership Principles, Organizational Leadership, Leadership Principles, Organizational Leadership at Harvard Business School Online
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Information Technology at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
Advanced Technical College Certificate, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Advanced Technical College Certificate, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Berufsbildende Schule Frankenthal Andreas-Albert-Schule
Apprenticeship, Information Technology, Apprenticeship, Information Technology at Berufsbildende Schule Technik 2 Ludwigshafen
International Yoga Teacher, International Yoga Teacher at Loka Yoga Bali (Yoga Alliance)
This repository includes a CI platform for and collection of mature and curated Bicep modules. The platform supports both ARM and Bicep and can be leveraged using GitHub actions as well as Azure DevOps pipelines.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:3 releases, 44 reviews, 40 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastian's contributions focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Bicep, specifically deploying and managing Azure resources. They implemented modules for various Azure services, including Key Vault, Container Instances, and Azure Health Bot, demonstrating a strong understanding of resource configuration and deployment strategies. Furthermore, they made workflow adjustments to the CI/CD pipeline scripts, demonstrating a hands-on approach towards platform and automation tasks. The user also made modifications in supporting scripts, adding a layer of deployment support.
Azure Verified Modules (AVM) is an initiative to consolidate and set the standards for what a good Infrastructure-as-Code module looks like. Modules will then align to these standards, across languages (Bicep, Terraform etc.) and will then be classified as AVMs and available from their respective language specific registries.
Contributions:73 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
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Sebastian Gräf - Principal DevOps & Cloud Consultant at graef.io